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"From the reports that we've got, he's been doing well at Ebbsfleet and they've mooted that they wanted to keep him for longer. So we've spoken to them and arranged it for him to stay with them. We do have a 24-hour recall on him which works in everyone's favour."

Meanwhile, Scott added that a proposed loan deal for Simon Ford – which broke down after the recent injury to Shaun Pearson – could be revived following the former Boston man's return to full fitness.

He said: "There's obviously a lot of things that can change in football and one of those things is whether the clubs that were interested are still interested now.

"We've got to see if Shaun's 100 per cent fit to carry on, we don't want to let someone go out on loan and him not to be totally right but that's still a possibility."